Break out of the courtyard

No. 95, Nanluogu Lane, front yard.

"Dad, guess who I saw today?" Yan Jiedi ran into the west wing excitedly.

Yan Bugui was sitting at the dinner table. Just as he picked up his chopsticks, he saw his fourth daughter, who was married, coming over at dinner time. He could not help but sneer, "No matter who you saw, there is no food for you here. Go back to your own home and eat."

"Eat, eat, eat! All you know is eating!" Yan Jie Di said angrily, "If you hadn't been greedy for that little bit of food, would the Zhang family have cut off ties with us?"

After the tall and thin Yan Jiedi finished her angry words, she slammed the door and left, forgetting everything she had wanted to say.

It was after seven o'clock in the evening when everyone was enjoying the cool air in the yard. They saw Zhou Laoer's mother and third sister coming in from the east wing of the front yard carrying several large lunch boxes. Everyone smelled the fragrance and went over, only to find out that Zhang Heping had returned with his wife and children!

Moreover, this evening, Zhang Heping also invited Chen Liqin and her eldest son, eldest daughter-in-law and others to have dinner at the Capital Hotel; the lunch boxes were filled with leftovers.

"Zhou Laoer, why didn't Zhang Heping invite you to the Capital Hotel?" Bang Geng looked at the meat and vegetables in the lunch box and said sourly, "Is it because he thinks you've been in labor reform?"

Zhou Chengwu looked at his mother Chen Liqin with resentment in his eyes!

The Zhang family originally invited Zhou Laoer and his family to dinner, but his mother Chen Liqin disagreed with him going, thinking that Zhou Laoer was not presentable because of his gambling incident.

"Get out!" Zhou Laoer got angry when he thought of this and kicked all the onlookers out of the east wing.

At the end, he even said sarcastically to the skinny guy, "I was sent to labor camp to stop gambling because I couldn't control myself!"

"What about you? Why are you doing labor reform? Did you kill Liu Guangfu?" Zhou Chengwu saw the second uncle Liu Haizhong in the backyard walk to the second gate and shouted to Bang Geng who suddenly became mute:

"You were the one who killed Liu Guangfu! Otherwise, why would you run away? It had nothing to do with you, so why would you be sent to a labor camp?"

Seeing that her son was too flustered to refute, Qin Huairu quickly stepped forward and scolded, "Zhou Chengwu, stop slandering me! You were not at the scene at the time, and you...if you continue to talk nonsense, I will sue you for defamation and rumor-mongering!"

"Zhang Heping said before that if it weren't for you, Qin Huairu, and Sha Zhu finding Banggeng first, Banggeng would definitely be dragged away to eat peanuts!" Zhou Chengwu was not invited to dinner tonight, and he was already holding his breath. Banggeng actually dared to come to his house to provoke him, looking for death!

He didn't dare to do anything to Zhang Heping, but he could exaggerate what Zhang Heping said in private, as a small revenge on Zhang Heping.

Zhou Chengwu was standing on the steps in front of the east wing, looking down at Qin Huairu, Banggeng, Xiaodang, Huaihua and others who were confused by the words "Zhang Heping said before", and sneered:

"Qin Huairu, everyone in the courtyard knows your little tricks! Once you take off your clothes..."

“Brother!” Zhou Chencheng, the third sister of the Zhou family, shouted at the door, interrupting the gossip that Zhou Chengwu had not yet finished making up. “If you dare to make up stories about Brother Heping, he doesn’t even need to do anything. The bodyguards who came back with him will beat you into a pig’s head!”

Zhou Chengwu was called back. Most people in the courtyard felt that the show was not satisfying enough, so they could only disperse to cool off as it was too hot to stay together.

However, when everyone saw Liu Haizhong blocking the second gate, they subconsciously glanced at Bang Geng and Qin Huairu outside the door of the east wing in the front courtyard.

"Old Liu, don't listen to Zhou Laoer's nonsense!" Yi Zhonghai walked over and said to Liu Haizhong, "The police went to the scene at the time. They finally determined that it was an accident and issued a document. It clearly stated that Banggeng was sentenced to labor reform because he stole public explosives."

Liu Haizhong was originally staring at Banggeng, trying hard to recall what he saw and heard when he went to Nanla Town that year.

When Yi Zhonghai interrupted him, Liu Haizhong immediately thought of how he had to return to the capital early because of his work in the steel mill, but Yi Zhonghai, as an 8th-level worker, still stayed in Nanla Town with Qin Huairu...

"And Shazhu!" Liu Haizhong looked at He Yuzhu who was pretending to be stupid, and couldn't help but ponder what Zhou Laoer had just said, "If Qin Huairu and the others hadn't found Banggeng first, Banggeng would definitely have eaten peanuts!"

Ever since his second son Liu Guangtian got married and moved out, Liu Haizhong had no one to fight with, and he often missed the old days.

Thinking about this, Liu Haizhong always felt sorry for his third son, thinking that he had not beaten him lightly before.

If he had been more careful back then and made his third son Liu Guangfu behave himself and not associate with the thieves and scoundrels, he would not have been blown to death in the river.

While Liu Haizhong was lost in his memories, the Jia family members had already walked around him and trotted into the second gate.

……

It was past 23 p.m. when Zhang Heping was taken to the Capital Hotel in a black Hongqi sedan.

Then, he was unexpectedly stopped by Liu Haizhong at the entrance of the hotel.

"Deputy Director Zhang, do you want us to handle this?" When the guard sitting on the passenger seat of the Hongqi sedan saw Zhang Heping being stopped, he hurriedly opened the door and prepared to go over to take a look.

"It's okay! I know this person." Zhang Heping waved his hand, "You go back and rest first."

"Zhang, Deputy Director Zhang!" Liu Haizhong, who had been retired for seven or eight years, became three inches shorter when he heard the young man in military uniform in the car addressing Zhang Heping.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Heping looked at Liu Haizhong and asked casually, then looked at the watch on his left wrist. It was 5 minutes to : in the evening.

He had a good talk with the new leader tonight, but the only drawback was that the other party actually wanted him to invest money in the country.

Zhang Heping originally wanted to refute it with the example of Lou Bancheng, but in the end he used a softer statement to temporarily get away with the matter.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to invest in the country, but he doesn’t want to set up a joint venture. He thinks the property rights there are not clearly defined and are too easily restricted. It would be better to set up a three-in-one and one-supplement factory.

"Heping, I want to ask about the incident between Guangfu and Banggeng ten years ago..."

After hearing the reason why Liu Haizhong blocked his way, Zhang Heping couldn't help but frown, and too many memories flashed through his mind.

"Old Liu!" Zhang Heping patted Liu Haizhong's shoulder as he bowed and waited for a reply, and said calmly: "If you had not been in a hurry to go back, but insisted on finding out the cause of Liu Guangfu's death, I would have told you some of my guesses."

"But you've returned to the capital!" Zhang Heping put his hands behind his back and walked around Liu Haizhong. "So many years have passed, and my speculations can no longer be confirmed. Speaking them out will only cause more trouble."

"Heping, I just want to know, was it an accident or someone did it on purpose?"

"I didn't hear that Liu Guangfu had any conflicts with anyone there. It was probably an accident."

Back then, Banggeng stole explosives and took Liu Guangfu to fry fish. His original intention was to take Liu Guangfu to eat fish together, which was a good starting point.

As for whether it was Banggen who pressed the detonator during the bombing process, or whether Liu Guangfu took the detonator down to the river, fished out the bomb, and then pressed the detonator himself to test why the bomb did not explode...

Because the detonator was not found, it is impossible to determine who pressed the detonator by looking at whether the detonator was intact.

In Zhang Heping's personal subjective opinion, the person who controls the detonator should be Bang Geng!

Who wouldn't want to make a louder bomb when there are too many little firecrackers?

Therefore, the truth of that year should be that after the bomb was tied to a stone and thrown into the water, Liu Guangfu was waiting downstream to pick up fish, while Bang Geng pressed the detonator on the shore.

As a result, the bomb didn't explode!

Then, Banggeng asked Liu Guangfu to check the underwater bomb, while he continued to press his detonator to find out why there was no explosion.

And then, boom…

Ring!

Liu Guangfu was killed in the explosion, and Banggeng escaped with the detonator!

Of course, these are all Zhang Heping's speculations. There is no evidence for this. He just thinks Banggeng is capable of doing such a stupid thing as pressing the detonator continuously.

Just as Zhang Heping said just now, if Liu Haizhong had not been in a hurry to leave at that time, he might have expressed these speculations.

But Liu Guangfu’s biological father is gone, and Liu Haizhong himself doesn’t care about the cause of his son’s death, so why should Zhang Heping care?

Their neighborhood relations are not good!

When Zhang Heping returned to the guest room upstairs, his parents, two sisters, two brothers-in-law, and six nephews were all in the room.

"Heping, this is the red envelope that Chang Wen and Chang Qing got during the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong Island. I'm returning it to you!" The eldest sister Zhang Zhaodi stuffed a stack of Hong Kong dollar banknotes into Zhang Heping's hand.

Then, the second sister Zhang Pandi also stuffed a wad of money in, "It's too much money, I feel uneasy holding it."

"What are you doing for me?" Zhang Heping said in a slightly speechless tone, "I only gave each of them a red envelope of New Year's money. The other red envelopes were given to the three of them by others."

"If you want to quit, go ahead and quit. If I quit, others will worry that I have something against them! You are leaders too, think about the reasoning yourself."

As Zhang Heping spoke, he gave the two stacks of money to his nieces Chang Wen and Zhang Ting respectively, and asked them to divide them among themselves.

The eldest wife Tang Xin stood aside and smiled at the two sisters, "I think Heping won't accept it! That's New Year's money for Chang Wen and the others. If you think it's inconvenient to keep the money at home, help them deposit it in the bank."

"Don't give me such bad advice!" Zhang Heping opened his suitcase and said as he looked for a change of clothes: "You've already experienced two waves of real estate market in Hong Kong Island. Don't you see that the housing prices in the capital are all at rock-bottom prices?"

As Zhang Heping went into the bathroom to take a shower, Tang Xin and Chen Shuting chatted with everyone for a while, and finally made an appointment to go shopping the next day and learn about the capital's recent housing purchase policies.

……

Two days later, Zhang Heping was picked up by a Hongqi car early in the morning and attended a meeting until late at night before being taken back to the Capital Hotel.

He was asked to introduce the economic situation abroad, but Zhang Heping attended the meeting for two days. It was not until the end of the meeting on the evening of the 6th that Zhang Heping was called to a small room by the old man who presided over the meeting and asked about the situation in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

On July 7, when the newspaper published "Several Policy Provisions on Urban Non-agricultural Individual Economy", pointing out that individual economy is a necessary supplement to state-owned economy and collective economy, Zhang Heping returned to Hong Kong Island with his wife, children, and eight bodyguards.

However, my mother-in-law Xu Jiefeng stayed, saying that she wanted to accompany her husband Tang Ming.

Zhang Heping was in such a hurry to return to Hong Kong Island mainly to avoid the new leader asking him for investment again!

However, what he never expected was that he did not get away with the investment and he even lost a lot of time on it.

Starting from July 7, heavy rains began to fall in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The next day's newspaper news reported a tragic accident in which a train bound for Kundu ran off a broken bridge, which marked the beginning of the flood disaster.

For several days in a row, Zhang Heping was paying attention to the various problems found by the Heping Audit, and did not realize that the heavy rains in the west in recent days were no weaker than those last summer.

Number 13!

Most of Shudu was flooded!

At the same time, several new factories built in the mountain city encountered disasters such as landslides and mud-rock flows, and workers and equipment were not relocated in time...

On July 7, when Director Sha of the Shenzhen factory mentioned the flood in Shudu to Zhang Heping, Zhang Heping didn't believe it at first!

In Zhang Heping’s memory of his previous life, none of the elders in his family mentioned that there would be a flood disaster this year.

However, the news about the flood in Shudu that was mentioned briefly in the newspapers could not be false.

Zhang Heping held the newspaper, frowned and said into the microphone: "How much damage has been done in Shancheng?"

"Not sure yet!" Sha Zhixiang replied on the other end of the phone: "They only said that the factory building where the transfer equipment was located was buried by the mudslide, and some other factories were destroyed by the road, so we haven't contacted them yet."

"Why can't we get in touch?" Zhang Heping asked angrily, "Didn't I tell them to choose the gentle slope on the south bank of the mountain city? They..."

"Did they build the factory inside Shankaka again?" Zhang Heping's voice suddenly rose. "Did they?"

"At the beginning of last month, I kept urging you to come over, just to talk about this, but you were never available!" Sha Zhixiang's voice sounded helpless, "Those military factories are not under the jurisdiction of our department, and you always insist on confidentiality, so I can't do anything about it.

If they hadn’t suffered such heavy losses this time that they needed to temporarily suspend the order from Tingmei Trade, and wanted us to add funds... Hey, are you listening?"

Here to ask for money again!

Zhang Heping was speechless about this!

Although this time it was a natural disaster, the main reason was the improper site selection of those military factories.

When he was drawing the construction plan for the factory, he paid special attention to the considerations for site selection.

As for the principle of confidentiality that Director Sha just mentioned, this is the standard in military factories. Many people inside cannot reveal the work they do to outsiders throughout their entire lives.

However, Zhang Heping had mistakenly thought that Director Sha had approached him regarding CITIC Technology. Fortunately, he did not tell anyone, otherwise it would have been a joke.

"Additional funds are allowed, but only after the factory is built according to my requirements. Moreover, this money will be advanced to them in the form of payment for goods." Zhang Heping said seriously:

"Tell them that if any factory is not built in accordance with the standards, I will invest in building a factory in Shenzhen to replace them."

It was this last sentence that made Zhang Heping not only spend money, but also spend a lot of effort!

……

On July 7, Zhang Heping was dumbfounded when he received another call from Sha Zhixiang.

Several military factories were assigned to their secret department and were under the unified management of Director Wang.

The key point is that these military factories have to come to the Pearl River Delta to select a site and build a factory, and then serve as a three-in-one factory for Tingmei Trading Company.

Among them, Factories 789 and 879 have the largest capital demands!

The demand that Zhang Heping mentioned is not the current investment of one or two hundred million yuan, but the future iterations and upgrades.

He felt that he was being schemed against by his new leader, but he had no evidence!

In fact, Zhang Heping was indeed plotted against.

The equipment that was swallowed up by mudslides and landslides has been dispersed to the deep mountains in the southwest to support real military industry.

As for Zhang Heping's civilian products, he has to pay for the construction of the factory out of his own pocket and then slowly deduct the processing fees from them.

Just as Zhang Heping was busy selecting a site to build a factory, striving to produce personal computers and build the Internet as soon as possible, dark clouds gathered in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, the water level continued to rise, and another flood was forecast in advance.

Whether it was the floods in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River or the floods in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Zhang Heping and a group of Hong Kong businessmen only donated some money.

However, a piece of news on August 8th caused an uproar in the Chinese business community in Hong Kong. It was hard to believe that it was true!

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